Three young children were found in a highly distressed state at a house party in Carrigaline where gardaí found many empty beer cans and drug paraphernalia including needles, tinfoil and burnt spoons on the floor.

Emergency 999 calls were made repeatedly for an hour by a Corkman who, became abusive when approached by gardaí.

A young man handed in his CV at a supermarket in the hope of picking up a job — then stole three cans of tuna on the way out.

Gardai arrested a Dubliner today and charged him with having €200,000 worth of cannabis resin in a taxi in Cork City yesterday.